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New York City–based Cynthia Gale and her eponymous jewelry design company have long made a business of crafting jewelry for museum gift shops. Gale’s pieces complement the museums’ collections and serve as souvenirs for visitors to purchase. Recently, her client...

Johann Wiebe, Senior Analyst in the GFMS team at Thomson Reuters presented the GFMS/Silver Institute Interim Silver Market Review at the recently held Annual Silver Industry Dinner hosted by the Silver Institute. The Review   noted that...

Pandora is urging women to buy their own lab grown diamonds, in a campaign fronted by "champions of self-empowerment" - Rosario Dawson and Ashley Graham. The Danish jeweler has ditched all mined diamonds and pledged...

Authors: Deepa Srinivasa, Dr. Ramchandra Patil, Bharanidharan K, Prathamesh Bare Lab Grown Diamonds have gained increased popularity in recent times. Today’s cutting-edge technology has made it possible to replicate a diamond’s natural growth in highly...

GIA is to close its Antwerp grading lab, saying it is no longer economically viable. It will stop taking submissions on 1 July and cease trading altogether on 31 July. GIA indicated back in August 2020...

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing, W&W Jewellery has taken inspiration from antique jewellery and atomic post-war design to create an out-of-this-world ring. Interweaving historical and cosmic influences, the innovative ‘Celestial’...

GIA (Gemological Institute of America) has launched an automated system that can distinguish lab-grown melee from natural stones. It's addressing concerns that simulants, laboratory-grown and HPHT treated natural diamonds, are deliberately being mixed into parcels...

A new record for the world's largest polished lab grown diamond has been set by Indian company Ethereal Green Diamond LLP, with a 30.18-carat stone. It snatches the title from Greenlab, another Indian company, which...

Tests on a lab grown diamond revealed an unexpected orange phosphorescence, a possible consequence of defects internal crystal plane. The CVD-produced 1.547 carat, emerald cut H / VS1 stone was submitted to the Gemological Science...

Pandora today announced the launch of a lab grown diamond collection in the US and Canada, following its announcement last May that it would no longer use mined gems. The Danish jewelry giant also says...